U.S. Senate · February 20, 2025
Roll call 73 · 119th Congress, session 1
S.Amdt. 1156 — To prevent millions of Americans from being kicked off their health coverage, suffering needlessly, getting sicker, and dying sooner.
A vote to set aside an objection that the measure breaks a budget rule A senator objected that the measure spends or cuts more than the budget allows. Sixty votes set that objection aside; fewer, and the measure is stopped by the objection without a vote on what it would do.
Blocked
47 yes 53 no
The Senate said no · recorded as “Motion Rejected”
Needed three-fifths (60 of 100 senators), the bar for ending debate.
What was being voted on
119-SAMDT-1156 — To prevent millions of Americans from being kicked off their health coverage, suffering needlessly, getting sicker, and dying sooner.
Mr. Wyden proposed amendment SA 1156 to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 7, which sets the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034. The purpose of this amendment is to add a new section to title IV that creates a point of order in the Senate against legislation.
